Etymology

freakish

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Today it means: Resembling a freak. Full definition →

English freak ← Old English frec ← Proto-West Germanic *frek
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*preg-
  2. Proto-Germanic*frekaz
  3. Proto-Germanic*frekōną
  4. Proto-West Germanic*frekōn
  5. Old Englishfrician?
  6. Old Englishfrīcian
  7. Middle Englishfriken?
  8. Proto-Germanic*frekaz
  9. Proto-West Germanic*frek
  10. Old Englishfrec
  11. Englishfrekder.?
  12. Englishfreak
  13. English todayfreakish

From freak + -ish.

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